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The pint-sized Pope of pop candy coats his protest songs...

Hairy misfits defiant debut...

Been meaning to post this piece for a while, since the whole clandestine operation around the new Boards Of Canada album, “Tomorrow’s Harvest”, began. It’s an interview I did with the duo in February 2002, around the release of “Geogaddi”. NME billed it erroneously as “Boards Of Canada’s first ever interview” at the time, which was pushing it a bit…

A fairly eclectic selection here this week, including some great proto-Takoma guitarists from the 1920s, chamber music reimaginings of the Kompakt back catalogue, that lost Romanian kosmische record you’ve always been looking for, and Prince making a stoner jam out of “Let’s Go Crazy” (which you can hear below, along with a bunch of interesting other stuff).

Revitalised by Grinderman, Cave and band return with an aquatic, slow-moving work of hushed beauty...

“Sometimes you gotta go get mad!” The full gang reconvene in Baltimore for a feral but friendly ninth...

The latest Scandi-TV import proves the Nordic crime wave hasn’t peaked just yet...

Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire and The Clash are among the artists releasing new records as part of this year's Record Store Day.

Thanks for all your kind words over the past couple of weeks about the relaunched mag. I know this will undoubtedly read like self-justifying hype on our part, but we have been genuinely thrilled and overwhelmed by how positive the response has been.

Damon Albarn reunites band aboard Rainbow Warrior on the River Thames